Biography
Early life
Maycie Herrington (née Copeland) was born to Thomas and Dicie Copeland on November 7, 1918, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Herrington went to the grade school associated with St. Augustine College and then enrolled into the Lucille Hunter School. She received her high school education at Washington High School, graduating 1936.College years
Herrington returned to theMarriage and children
Three years after graduating from college, Herrington married Aaron Herrington in 1943. Their daughter Ann was born in 1944. A second child Kay Marie was to be welcomed in 1956 after the couple moved to California.Tuskegee Airmen experience
Shortly after their wedding, Aaron Herrington received orders to report to Tuskegee, Alabama, by the military for training as a fighter pilot as part of the Tuskegee Airmen in 1943. Maycie Herrington quit her job at Mechanics and Farmers Bank where she had been working as a bookkeeper in order to join her husband in Tuskegee, Alabama. She went to work for the Red Cross and interacted with many of the Tuskegee Airmen. Following the death of her husband in 1995, Herrington assumed his position in the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc and since 1996 has continued his work to memorialize the Tuskegee Airmen. As part of these efforts, she designed and produced a series of trading cards documenting individual members of the Tuskegee Airmen. She became secretary of the organization in 1998.Social work
Following World War II, the Herringtons moved to Long Beach, California. Maycie Herrington was hired by the Bureau for Public Assistance as a social worker in 1949, a position that she held for more than 30 years. In this role, she worked with the Long Beach Area Welfare Planning Council United Way. Maycie and Aaron had a second daughter born to them, Kay Marie Herrington, in 1956. She also organized the summer camps and Christmas activities run by the bureau. She retired in 1981.Awards
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